Cars to pay Rs 20/hr, nil for autos, bikes

After earning respect from Amdavadis at large for clearing the roads of encroachments, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s on-street policy announced on Thursday is certain to leave car owners disappointed. The standing committee of the civic body passed a resolution to levy Rs 20 per hour for car parking, while leaving twowheelers and autorickshaw drivers from the ambit of parking charges.

In phase 1, the civic body has already allotted 25 parking plots and 48 other parking plots will be allotted in phase 2. But looking at the huge number of vehicles in the city, the need to have more parking spaces was felt. Keeping this in mind, spots for on-street parking will be decided. But no parking fare will be charged for two-wheelers and autos, while car owners will have to shell out Rs 10 to Rs 20 per hour charges depending on the category of the road. Model roads will be in A category where the car parking charges will be Rs 20 per hour and in other category roads which is B and C, the parking charges would be Rs 15 and Rs 10 respectively.

Municipal Commissioner Vijay Nehra said, “The charges have been kept to discourage people from parking on the roads and encourage them to maximise the use of various plots and multi- level parking. “We want as many cars as possible to go off road and park in the plots. Pricing has been used as an effective tool. Two-wheelers do not occupy much space in parking as much as a car does and autorickshaw is a form of public transport and thus no charge has been imposed to encourage its usage.” Krishnashree Kurup, a BTech student said, “Whether it is a two-wheeler or a car, rules should be same for everyone as car owners or two-wheeler drivers or auto drivers violate rules. It is very unfair.

The charges have been kept to discourage people from parking on roads and encourage them to maximise use of plots,multi-level parking.

Vijay Nehra, civic chief

There should be no partiality. The corporation could have easily kept a nominal charge for two-wheelers and auto drivers as they haphazardly park on the road.

Mahesh Padhiyar, engineering student

It should rather be Rs 20 for two hours. And if one pays Rs 20 at CG road it should be considered valid in entire area and different charges should not be collected .

Ashish Gupta, CA practitioner

If they are charging Rs 20 per hour from car owners, Rs 10 should also be charged from twowheeler drivers. Everyone is responsible for traffic, not just cars.

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